Chapter 120: Fierce Battle (I)
We can measure the strain velocity of the monkey ant during heavy rainfall.
While the red ants were busy driving away the aphids and removing the eggs from the affected area, the monkey ants had already made a nest in the hollow of the trunk of a large pine tree a few hours earlier, and had taken precautions to place all the treasures inside.
Cordyceps, the commander-in-chief of the Red Ant Country, remembered what had happened to him.
When it was fighting the northern termites, one fine day, the scout ants reported to it that there was a team of eighteen soldiers, not wiped out, but unable to move! This terrified the Red Ant Army.
It was only because the termites had gained a major technological lead in warfare that it was widely believed that we would never be able to defeat termites again.
The Red Ant Country sent secret agents to explore the secrets and found that the termites had indeed just completed a kind of artillery that could spray viscose, called "termite glue artillery".
This artillery is capable of firing glue at a distance of more than half a meter, immobilizing the mouths and feet of enemy soldiers.
After months of research, the Red Ant Army finally figured out a way to defend itself by using dead leaves as a shield, so they staged a famous "Dead Leaf War", and finally the Red Ant Army won a complete victory.
But the current enemy, the Monkey Ant, is much more powerful than the termites of the past, and they are not only huge in number, but also agile and cunning.
There is only one way to deal with such a formidable enemy, and that is to invent a secret weapon that is both effective and terrifying.
The Red Ant Army once invented weapons such as formic acid, dead leaf shields, glue traps, and iron ox chariots.
But it's spring, it's not summer yet, and the iron bull hasn't been born yet.
What to do? The only way to do that is to invent a new powerful weapon, a weapon that can defeat the Yue Monkey Ant by surprise!
The Red Ant Nation happens to have a large foreign legion, which is composed of a special race of ants, called "bone crushers".
They are characterized by their large heads, long and sharp beaks, and can bite hard insect bones, such as the leg bones of grasshoppers, locusts and praying mantises, and the dorsal shells of ladybugs.
They did not stand out in the war because the feet were too short and the body was too heavy.
Why go to great lengths to drag them to the battlefield and be useless?
So the Red Ant Army assigned them to take care of household chores, such as chewing chaff and insect bones, cutting down tree branches, and so on.
Plantain, a senior military expert of the Red Ant Country, thinks that there must be a way to make these bulky guys become warriors on the battlefield, as long as four sturdy worker ants carry it!
In this way, the Bone Crusher uses its scent to command the "living feet" underneath it, and rushes towards its enemies, biting them into several pieces with its long beak.
Several soldier ants wrapped in syrup practiced on the flat ground, and four worker ants lifted the bone crusher ants and ran in unison.
It seems that everything is going very well!
In this way, the Red Ant Army invented a completely new combat vehicle - the meat grinder tank.
Although it is not as good as the Iron Ox Chariot, in the current situation, it is completely okay to be in a hurry, and it is better than nothing.
At the dawn of the day, the Yue Monkey Ants surrounding Baiguo City were ready to go, and the Red Ant Army trapped in the tree stump was hungry and tired, and it seemed that they would not be able to last long.
The Yue Monkey Ant launched wave after wave of fierce offensives.
After two fierce formic acid bombardments, the monkey ants captured the two intersections again.
The trees rotted under the bombardment, spitting out the corpses of the trapped ants, and the last few Red Ant soldiers had been denied.
The monkey ants pressed forward step by step, and the artillery ants lying in ambush on the ceiling of the cave entrance had nothing to do, and they were panicked in their hearts, and they were not far from the royal family.
The red ant army queen dandelion in the secret room in the cave saw that the general trend was gone, and began to slow down the heartbeat.
However, the front-line fighters who were charging into battle suddenly received a warning signal.
Something happened outside, and they went out the way they came.
The small hill that controls the city-state's access to the fortress is covered with rhododendrons, and thousands of red ants hide under the swaying flowers.
The Red Ant Army has finally decided to attack.
"Count them out of luck." The Monkey Ant sends a small fly communications mercenary to inform the central city-state.
Each little fly carries the same olfactory message:
"They're in the army! Send troops to support the outflank from the right flank! Get ready for a secret weapon! ”
The first ray of sunlight piercing the clouds hastened the enemy's decision to attack.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the Red Ant Army descended the mountain like a fierce tiger, sweeping across the plain with momentum, turning over the grass and jumping over the gravel.
Millions of male soldiers, all with their mouths wide open, are amazing.
However, the monkey ants were not afraid, they had expected this move.
Last night, they dug a small plum-shaped trench at intervals to lay in ambush, with only their jaws sticking out and their bodies protected by a layer of soil.
The carefully planned defense line of the Yue Monkey Ant immediately crushed the offensive of the Red Ant Army.
Faced with an enemy that only showed a sharp mouth, the Red Ant Army felt very difficult and helpless.
They are completely unable to cut off the feet of the monkey ants or split their stomachs.
At this time, the elite troops of the Vietnamese Monkey Plague Chicken City, under the cover of the golden poisonous mushrooms, lay in ambush not far away, preparing to outflank and counterattack.
Even if the Red Ant Army has a million troops, it will not be able to save the defeat, because the strength of the Yue Monkey Plague Chicken City Faction is as many as 10 million.
Each red ant has to deal with at least five monkey ants, and that's not even counting the monkey ants hiding in small trenches.
As soon as you get close to the large mouth of the monkey ant in the trench, any part of the body of the red ant soldier ant may be immediately missing.
Soon, the situation reversed, and the monkey ants poured out from all directions, and the Red Ant Army camp was suddenly in chaos, panicked and crowded.
At about nine o'clock in the morning, the Red Ant Army almost fought and retreated, powerless to parry.
The Monkey Ants began to release the scent of victorious ants, and they had successfully deployed beforehand, so they didn't have to use their secret weapons at all!
They chased after the red ant deserters who had lost their armor, and they all thought that the battle of Baiguo City had been won.
But the feet of the monkey ants are too short, and the red ants have to run at least ten steps when they leap forward.